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A Canons edition: Alan Spence's debut collection of short stories is a timeless portrait of Glasgow, and an acknowledged piece of classic Scottish writing.

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Hilarious, relatable and delightfully spicy - every woman in the prime of her perimenopausal life needs to meet Lisa Darling!

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From spring to summer, autumn to winter, a lot can happen in a single year... Tilly Parker needs a fresh start, fresh air and a fresh attitude if she is ever to leave the past behind and move on with her life. As she seeks out peace and quiet in a new town, taking on a plot at Ivy Lane allotments seems like the perfect solution.

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A wealth of lively characters and true-to-life situations in this collection confirm Lena Kennedy's reputation as one of our most vivid and compelling storytellers.

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When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest.

Izas Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her lifes companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known.

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Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why

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A funny, tender look at the ways your parents can disrupt your life and the pains of adolescence.

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A moving, funny and uplifting novel about an elderly couple, the son who is trying desperately to care for them and the young woman who will change their lives forever

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Connolly conducts with masterful hand and compassionate grace the voices of a once-hopeful working class couple during WW2 - now blitzed, battered and breaking into a desperate new dawn.

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"This novel is set in San Francisco in 1981, a world of loss that doesn't add up. Bob loves Jack, Joe-Toe does too, and Phyllis loses her son. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a bar, thinks about werewolves, has an orgasm, and discovers a number of truths about Jack"--

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Case Closed is Arthur Conan Doyle's account of the events of 1894, the year of the return of Jack the Ripper. Based on Oscar Wilde's real-life friendship with Conan Doyle and the extraordinary but little-known fact that in 1894 the detective in charge of the Jack the Ripper investigations was Oscar Wilde's neighbour in Tite Street, Chelsea.

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From one of the English language's great writers. Revisiting her beloved characters, Jack joins Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer; Home, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Lila, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the compassionate and heart-breaking story of the beloved and wayward son, Jack Boughton.

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All Jackson Jones wants for his tenth birthday is a basketball. Instead, his mother gives him a garden plot close to their city apartment. What could he possibly do with a "big mess of trouble and weeds" "Quattlebaum has created a winning cast of characters . . . and a savvy young hero whom readers will like--and respect".--School Library Journal, starred review.

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A brilliantly original novel about love, family, and human folly, by the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY LAWRENCE NORFOLK AND ELISABETH BRONFEN

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London.

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"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--

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This gorgeously composed Asian-inspired fantasy follows Fox's much-praised work "Dragon in Chains" and culminates in an all-out battle at fever pitch.

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Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to construct an ingenious, wry morality play' - Newsweek

Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite

Walter J.

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"First published in German by Verlag Bruno Cassirer 1909"--Copyright page.